Recently, as in very very late last night, I stumbled upon a live Wolf Parade recording more than ten months older than the 31 live Wolf Parade recordings I already had. This recording is from a tour in which Wolf Parade opened for Modest Mouse and The Walkmen in a place called the Rostraver Ice Garden south of Pittsburgh. They played ten songs, two of which had never been recorded live (as far as I know), Killing Armies and Same Ghost Every Night . (Same Ghost Every Night was recorded three months later [...]
For my college radio station WHCL I had to put together a 2011, so I'll share it here too even though I haven't posted in how many years? We were required to write about our favorite (hence the paragraph below) and put genres, so I got creative with my adjectives. 1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ferris Wheel On Fire (10” Bonus EP included in Neutral Milk [...]
These are some videos we took of some of our favorite shows of 2011 so far... Chad VanGaalen - "Do Not Fear" & "Peace Is On The Rise" Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 06/21/11 Purling Hiss "Voices" Bowery Ballroom, NYC 6/11/11 Kurt Vile "Downbound Train" (Bruce Spingsteen Cover) Bowery Ballroom, NYC 06/11/11 White Fence "Baxter Corner" The Knitting Factory, [...]
Fresh off the press... Pitchfork will be posting this tomorrow... John Maus "Believer" from his latest magnus opus, "We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves." The show was amazing. It's one of his last songs, he's a bit tired.. Nevertheless, check it out.
Structure from Thomas Francis on Vimeo .

Frog Eyes are slated to release thier new album this April through thier new record label Dead Oceans. It's titled "Paul's Tomb: A Triumph, you can see the cover art and download the first song below. Oh BTW the song (which runs just over 9 minutes) is truly epic, and from what Ive heard, the rest of the album is gonna blow your mind too! So needles to say I couldn't be more psyched for this one: Mp3: Frog Eyes Flower In A Glove [...]
Plus check out Handsome Furs on CNN before you go out to see thier show tonight at Maxwells in NJ... HANDSOME FURS
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/epis ode/2081-menomena/1

MOONFACE Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums LP / (DIGITAL) (JAG146, released: 01/26/10) This is physically available only in the vinyl format (approximately 20 minutes of music on a single side of a 12-inch record). It is also available in digital formats. The vinyl edition and some digital editions will be accompanied with a dream journal, on which the music is based. JagJaguwar
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